Ed Glas's blog on VS load testing

I have been quiet on my blog for a while, mostly because I have switched jobs. I had been running dev, test, and PM for the Team Test team here in Raleigh NC, reporting to the PUM of Team Test, Amit Chatterjee in our India Development Center. My team...

I have been doing a lot of interviewing lately. First of all, if you are interested in coming to sunny Raleigh, NC to work as an SDET on my team, let me know! We are hiring. Second, I want to give people a flavor of what to be prepared for in an interview...

We enabled two new key extensibility points in VS 2010 to better handle rich post bodies that we often see with “web 2.0” style apps and with SilverLight. The first is you can create custom editors for the request body: Request Body Plugins (also here...

Of all the great things we did with the product in 2010, one area I was surprised and pleased by is how far our documentation came thanks to the heroics of Howie Hilliker . Howie has been busy since we shipped, continuing to beef up the MSDN documentation...

Geoff Gray has done it again, adding a bunch of new content to the Quick Reference Guide at http://vsptqrg.codeplex.com/ . I strongly recommend you download this documentation and keep it in “your back pocket”. One thing to note is that in its current...

The SharePoint team released the Administration Toolkit for SharePoint 2010 (SPAT2010) . One part of this toolkit is a great new load testing kit for 2010. The toolkit was initially developed by the SharePoint product team’s perf testing team, and then...

Version 2 of the Quick Reference Guide has now been published. This guide is chock-full of information gathered through real experience with the product. This new version contains 97 new or updated articles . Special thanks to Geoff Gray for once again...

I’ve updated my Content Index for Web Tests and Load Tests , which is a list of links to load test content. I added a bunch of links on what’s new in VS 2010, as well as a few additional links: Dynamics AX Performance and Load Testing: Application Benchmark...

I am very excited about the new level of documentation we have in this release. Howie Hilliker has done a fantastic job enhancing our documentation. We actually have screen shots and artwork in the docs now! Also thanks to the load test product team for...

I am happy to say that VS 2010 is generally available starting today! Go to the Visual Studio home page for information. As you are probably aware, we put a huge investment in our testing products into this release. I outlined the new features with my...

In VS load tests come with a few load patterns out of the box: Constant load: holds count of users steady Step load: steps the count of users up to some level then holds them steady Goal-based load: adjusts the user load up and down to reach some goal...

In VS 2010, we made several changes to the process models for local and remote execution. These changes impact you when you: Look in task manager or at performance counters to see how the test processes are running, Turn on logging to debug a problem...

Michael Koltachev, Geoff Staneff, and the rest of the TE team put together a valuable troubleshooting guide for troubleshooting a VS 2010 test rig. Check it out at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vststest/thread/df043823-ffcf-46a4-9e47-1c4b8854ca13...

Contents Overview How Web Performance Tests Work Overview of New Features in VS 2010 Debugging a Web Test to Find and Fix Dynamic Parameters Adding Your Own Web Test Recorder Plugin to Make Record/Playback “Just Work” More Recorder Enhancements in VS...

dynaTrace offers a terrific integration with VS 2008 to enable performance analysis of java and mixed .NET + java applications. The integration is now even deeper with VS 2010. With VS 2010, you can drill straight from a specific slow Web page in a...

The Dynamics AX product team is a long-time internal customer of VS Load Tests, and use VS to do all their product load testing. They released the Benchmark Toolkit to customers, which enables Dynamics load testing. This is a huge win for Dynamics AX...

If you are currently using VS 2008, here is how I compare the products and components you use for load testing. VS 2008 VS 2010 Description Key differences VS...

Sean has a great post on running Web tests and load tests from the command line . A hidden feature is that you can set parameter values from environment variables, which enables you to target different environments with the same test without editing the...

Visual Studio 2010 RC is available on the Web today for MSDN subscribers. Go to the RC landing page for details. We have a very short window, just a few weeks, for incorporating feedback from you back into the product for RTM. Please install the RC today...

In this post I outlined the products you need for load testing with Visual Studio 2010. I included a diagram with one configuration option for load tests. Here I will discuss other configurations available. Configuration 1: “Local” Load Generation This...

Here are the VS 2010 SKUs, and testing features available in each (see this link for more feature comparisons). Client SKUs Name Test tools it contains Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Test Tools in VS Premium Load Testing Network Emulation IntelliTrace Microsoft...

In beta2 we added a number of new minor features, and a couple of major ones. We also changed our licensing model, which you can read about here . Here is a list of the minor features we added, along with a brief description of each. The last one in the...

As you are probably already aware, Visual Studio Beta 2 is now available for download, see the landing page here . For load testing, you will need to download and install: Visual Studio Ultimate Beta 2 (x86) Visual Studio 2010 Team Agents Beta 2 (x86...

In Visual Studio 2010, we are changing our load test licensing model. In VS 2005 and VS 2008, we shipped the load agent, which was licensed by CPU on the machine generating load. In Visual Studio 2010 we are changing our license model to a virtual user...

In dev10 we’ve added a new Virtual User Activity Chart that shows virtual user activity. Each row on the chart is a virtual user. Covering the Basics of the Chart See Sean Lumley’s post VSTS 2010 Feature- Load test virtual user activity visualization...